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many of our professional brethren. Ordered her merely to be 
watched, with antiphlogistic treatment. The symptoms continued 
the same until about twelve o’clock on Saturday evening, when 
she fell down and died. 
Sectio cadaveris .—On opening the abdominal cavity, the intes¬ 
tines presented every appearance of violent inflammation, and on 
removing the large ones, the diaphragm shewed an extensive rup¬ 
ture on the left side, through which the stomach, spleen, and a 
great portion of the small intestines, had passed into the thoracic 
cavity. Considerable effusion into both thorax and abdomen; and 
also, singular to say, the stomach presented in its great curvature a 
rupture about two inches in length, through which a considerable 
portion of food had passed into the thorax. Mortification had set in 
both in the stomach and intestines; on the least pressure my finger 
would perforate to the stomach; heart and lungs, with all the other 
viscera, perfectly sound. This mare was considered one of the 
soundest animals in the regiment, her age fourteen years. Query, 
Was the rupture in the stomach a primary or a subsequent affair? 
I am induced to think the latter, from the accumulation of gas, and 
strangury, or perhaps when she fell, from the distended state of 
the organ. 
*** We agree with Mr. Cochrane in regarding the rupture of 
the stomach as “ a subsequent affair.”—E d. Yet. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
County of Down Quarter Sessions, Hillsborough , July 2, 1849 . 
Before Assistant-Barrister JONES. 
Extraordinary Case.— Burges v. Small. 
JR. Morris , Esq., Solicitor, from Lurgan, appeared for the 
plaintiff: the defendant pleaded in person. 
The plaintiff in this action, Titus Burges, was an innkeeper in 
Banbridge, and had sent a colt for castration to defendant, who is 
a veterinary surgeon, practising in Newry. The colt subsequently 
died, and plaintiff sought damages from defendant on the plea of 
neglect, alleging the colt’s death to have been caused by the 
veterinary surgeon sending him home before he was in a fit state 
to travel, and whilst labouring under strangury. 
